OTish - the current situation on the board

[Olefin]

For the record - nothing I have done here was, in any way, a planned or intentional malicious act. There has been no attempt at manipulation by me in any way, except for stating my opinion and my ideas as everyone else does, to stimulate conversation and present a viewpoint that may not match everyone else's.

Webstral - if this is a gentleman's club, then gentlemen dont publicly call out other members or accuse them of malice of forethought. If there is a culture of civility, then frankly publicly trying to hang one member without any proof of any wrong doing is not an act I have ever heard deemed civil. And the act of smearing excrement that you said before made the board a lesser place being repeated again on a member trying to have honest conversation and express his viewpoint is hardly going to reflect well on the board the second time it happens.

As for what provoked this situation - I posted a thread about timeline errors in HW that directly contradict the timeline in another canon module. What did I say - that the March 2001 date as applied to four US divisions in HW was incorrect as it applied to the timeline in the previously released Ozarks module and that it would work fine if the date was moved to say June 2001.

Not that the events never happened - but that they happened later than in the module so they would fit with the events of Ozark. I.e. at most something along the lines of updating the April 1 numbers to have them bigger but then say by June 1 the events of fighting with New America in the Ozarks have reduced the 85th Division, etc.. to the numbers given in HW for April 1 for those divisions specifically.

And why did I put them up - because Legbreaker asked me directly on a post what I disagreed with specifically about HW and I stated it directly as an answer politely and without rancor.

As simple as that.

As for being some planned act to try to disrupt the board - I was re-reading Ozarks and HW that morning in order to respond to what James had posted and noticed the discrepancy in the timeline and figured it would make a good post.

No manipulation, no act of disruption - just pointing out an error in HW as I was asked to do so by a board member and an easy fix to correct it that I thought made sense and that could have been responded to or not.

There is no directive that says that canon cannot be questioned or cannot be called into account as part of being a member here. Threads, if they are deemed as going too far, can be locked or offending posts removed if they break the rules of the board. Moderators can notify people politely about such posts and they can be modified or removed easily.

I said I am not here to win friends. That doesnt mean I came here to make enemies in any way. And if I do make friends, which I have done, then so much the better.

It means that I will defend, as politely as possible, what I post and answer criticism instead of meekly bowing down to anyone who doesnt like what I say in an attempt to fit in.

Clearly an agenda does exist here on the board but its not mine. My only agenda is to discuss a game that I love in order to have even more fun with it and hopefully find new things about it and may even post some things that others can use in the process.

Thats what a discussion board is supposed to be about. And yes I have made mistakes both here and on older boards I was on in the past. But as opposed to others I can move on from the past and learn not to repeat the same mistakes.

As such I take full ownership of what I have said here without any rationalization beyond that of trying to stimulate discussion on a discussion board/forum. If I offended anyone with what I said it was not intentional in any way and for that I apologize profusely. If there are cultural differences between myself and other members that made what I said seem to be insulting when it was honestly never meant to be, then I will do my best to address that in the future.

What I have posted was not done maliciously or with any plan of any sort. Accusing me of such publicly is not civil behavior nor is it gentlemanly no matter how long a member has been on a board, whether they are a founder or joined a day ago.

Quashing the voice of a member who is honestly trying to stimulate debate and conversations, and doing so while answering the questions of another member in the process as politely as he can, is not a cultured act or that of gentlemen of any type or nationality.